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- Date:
- Registration opens: 6:00 pm closes: 7:00 pm
- Starts from: 6:00 pm
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First in a series of low key local Wednesday evening events in and around Tyneside, with a league to encourage participation and competition. Courses suitable for beginners and the more experienced wanting some training competition.
Terrain: The area is in 3 parts. The northern section is mostly flat open runnable ground (used for seasonal football games), but starts dropping downwards in the southern part, with a few steep earth banks, some blocks of woodland and the Badminton Centre. The middle section is the pit heap for the former Caroline Pit. A typical steep sided elongated hill, not as large as some we use, with a block of woodland along the eastern flank and mixed fast runnable or rough open grass. The southern section is a large area of fast runnable grass, with occasional trees and a small play area, sloping very gently from north-east to south-west.
Travel & Parking: Google Maps – Aim for Bowness Road and the Tyneside Badminton Centre (NE5 2TA). Just before the driveway to the Tyneside Badminton Centre begins the houses end. After leaving Pooley road, Bowness Road bends to the right, with an open grassed area on the right. Park considerately here, please.
Bus: No. 11, every 20 minutes from town, Pilgrim Street or east end of the Central Station, stops outside the Slatyford Tenants Association. Alight here and continue in the same direction as the bus to Bowness Road, first left which follow as for a car (400m.).Assembly/Start/Finish – at the end of Bowness Road (off Pooley Road, Slatyford).
Entry: Senior £5.00 Junior £2.00 Family £5.00. Entry on the day only. Please provide exact change.
A card reader will be available, subject to signal.
Large groups should give prior notice, please, via the contact page.Facilities:
Courses:
Yellow (1.7 km.) ~ Orange (3.0 km.) ~ Long Orange (4.0 km.).
Long Orange and Orange route choices may include a bit of street running on quiet roads. Both will have to cross Slatyford Lane twice, which can be busy, so care is needed. The Yellow course is entirely off public roads.
Maps ands Controls
Sites will be marked with a miniature O sign and orange tape secured with a clothes peg. Markers will have a code letter in permanent marker to be written on the control card. Carry a pen.
Electronic timing will be used for start and finish. All runners will be issued with a loan dibber. Timing tickets will be issued at download.Starts: From 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Courses close at 8:00 p.m. All participants should return to registration by that time when the markers will be removed..
Scoring:
100 points for the winner of each course, 99 for second, 98 for third etc. Anyone running in a course above their class will get a bonus of 5 points (10 for 2 courses above) and, likewise, anyone running a course below their class will be docked 10 points.
Safety: Orienteering is an adventure sport. Risks have been assessed and mitigated as far as possible . However participants are responsible for their own safety. Note that non-members of British Orienteering are not covered for claims from landowners or the public for damage to property or injury to person. Be very aware of and courteous to other users of the terrain stopping should there be an incident.
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